National Geographic Live Series

Overview

Growing rapidly through popular demand, National Geographic Live is a highly acclaimed speaker series that brings the world’s best scientists, explorers, authors, photographers, and filmmakers to the stage. The series facilitates the core purpose of National Geographic: furthering the knowledge and understanding of our world, through premium storytelling and visually stunning photography that inspires people to act, that enlightens their perspective, and that provokes conversation. A portion of the proceeds from these events is dedicated to the National Geographic Society.

Events

A big wall rock-climber of the highest order, he’s made legendary first ascents of some of the world’s tallest, most forbidding walls, from Baffin Island to Pakistan. Mark has climbed Yosemite’s El Capitan 24 times, including several one-day ascents. Today, he uses his skills to break scientific ground, reaching incredibly inaccessible environments in search of rare species.

A voyage around the world in search of big cats, with a Wildlife Photographer of the Year. His mission is to share the beauty of big cats while working to save them, and he travels from Asian jungles where resilient tiger populations persist, to the Himalaya, home of the rare snow leopard and on to the rain forests of Latin America to view the elusive jaguar. He’ll share both dangerous and lighter moments: from getting stuck in quicksand, to mishaps with remote-controlled cameras.

The 2017 National Geographic Explorer of the Year — and one of National Geographic’s most seasoned photographers — will help you discover a vast, hidden world beneath the waves. His images celebrate the mystery of the depths and offer portraits of creatures so intimate they sometimes appear to have been shot in a studio. The 11-time award winner in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, Skerry dives eight months of the year, often in extreme conditions beneath Arctic ice or in predator-infested waters.